>Alternatively Foxfire and (and Stonefield Query) can be used as a "soft" means of harding coding query logic -- which saves a lot of time over coding queries for the user by hand -- but is still a long way from giving the user an independent ad-hoc query tool.

Gar,

That's interesting since FoxFire was used in a vertiacal market application to provide completely ad hoc reporting capabilities and it did a very good job of it. Of course we extended the datadictionary and added our own changes to the source code and so forth, but it saved us a whole lot of time.